BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II

"The Banquet Service of the Grand Peterhof Palace was intended for ceremonial dinners, the service included dinner, dessert and tea sets. Originally it was designed for two hundred fifty place settings and have over five thousand five hundred pieces, and subsequently the quantity of pieces was significantly increased. The model for its paintings were pieces with a "cabbage leaf" motif from a service produced at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory from 1760 to 1780. All pieces are decorated with stylized cabbage leaves in bold relief, whose edges are set off by blue and gold shading, and on which and between are depicted flower bouquets. The leading artists E. Maksimov and A. Krasovskii worked on the service. Additions were produced in the course of the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth." A La Vieille Russie, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, (New York, 1991), n. 233, pg. 108